Louise Diamond
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Short Bio
Dr. Louise Diamond is the founder of the The Peace Company, Bristol, Vermont. She develops and distributes products and services that support individual and collective initiative for building a culture of peace in our society. She offers educational programs to build the capacity for peace leadership at the community, national, and international level. Louise provides consulting, training, and organizational development services to major companies and international organizations, specializing in issues of leadership, diversity, multi-cultural effectiveness, strategic planning, organizational development, women's empowerment, youth development, and creative conflict management.
==Peace Work in Cyprus]] Louise and her team are credited among other initiatives for the training they conducted in the following groups in which also several members and friends of Future Worlds Center met for the first time, such as Yiannis Laouris, Harry Anastasiou, Marios Michaelides, Katie Clerides, Huseyin Gursan, Bekir Azgin, Mustafa Damdelen, Maria Hadjipavlou, Sarper Ince and others.
- Bicommunal Conflict Resolution Group (Project Leaders I)
- Bicommunal Conflict Resolution Group (Project Leaders II)
- Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group
Learnings
In 2013, losing her battle with ovarian cancer, Louise set about preserving her tapes, books, films and articles, and making them available to the public. This treasure trove can be found at louisediamond.com. Louise said once, “My life has been a shower of blessings,” but her biggest dream was to drink 12 bottles of wine she bought in 1994 from Cyprus with friends on the occasion of the envisioned reunification.
